Staff profiles

Executive Director

The Executive Director is Professor Zahirul Hoque - Professor of Accounting, La Trobe Business School. His prior positions were: Associate Dean (Research) in the Faculty of Business, Economics and Law of La Trobe University, Chair in Accounting at Deakin University, Head of School of Business at Charles Darwin University, Senior Lecturer in Accounting at Griffith University, Lecturer in accounting at the Victoria University of Wellington, and Lecturer in accounting at Dhaka University, Bangladesh.

His research interests include accounting and organisational change, management accounting, performance management, public sector accounting, and a general interest in the interdisciplinary research in organisational designs. He has published a number of articles, book chapters, two edited volumes and two books, namely Handbook of Cost and Management Accounting and Strategic Management Accounting. He is the Founding Editor of the Journal of Accounting & Organizational Change.

Prof Hoque is on the Victoria Public Sector and Not-for-Profits Accounting Committee of CPA Australia since July 2011.


CPSGAP Advisory Board

Mr Des Pearson 
Auditor-General, Victorian Audit Office (Chair)

Mr Mike Blake 
Auditor-General, Tasmanian Audit Office (Member)

Mr Dean Yates 
Deputy Secretary, Policy and Cabinet, Department of Premier and Cabinet, Victoria (Member)  

Mr Jeff Rosewarne
Secretary, Department of Primary Industries, Victoria (Member)

Ms Cheryl Batagol
Chair, Environmental Protection Authority (EPA), Victoria (Member)

Dr Claire Noone
Executive Director, consumer Affairs Victoria (Member)

Ms Jo de Morton
Deputy Secretary, Government and Corporate Group, Department of Premier and Cabinet, Victoria (Member)  

Ms Louise Hill
Deputy Secretary, Corporate Services, Department of Planning and community Development, Victoria (Member) 

Professor Richard Tay
CPSGAP, La Trobe University (Member)

Associate Professor Robert Nyamori
CPSGAP, La Trobe University (Member)

Professor Zahirul Hoque
Executive Director, CPSGAP, La Trobe University (Secretary)